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1 online resource (x, 459 pages) : illustrations |
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Politics and culture in modern America |
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Politics and culture in modern America.
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Calvinism, Class, and the Making of a Modern Radical; Chapter 2: Spirituality and Modernity; Chapter 3: Pragmatism and ''Transcendent Vision''; Chapter 4: Muste, Workers' Education, and Labor's Culture War in the 1920s; Chapter 5: Labor Action; Chapter 6: Americanizing Marx and Lenin; Chapter 7: To the Left; Chapter 8: Muste and the Origins of Nonviolence in the United States; Chapter 9: Conscience Against the Wartime State and the Bomb |
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Chapter 10: Speaking Truth to PowerChapter 11: Muste and the Search for a ''Third Way''; Chapter 12: The ''American Gandhi'' and Vietnam; Epilogue ; Notes ; Index ; Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
American Gandhi traces the evolving political and religious views of one of the most beloved figures of the American left. Through A.J. Muste's exemplary career as a peace activist and radical, Leilah Danielson charts the rise and fall of American liberalism and the left over the course of the twentieth century |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-429) and index |
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In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967.
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| SUBJECT |
Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967
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Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967 fast |
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Pacifists -- United States -- Biography
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Quakers -- United States -- Biography
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Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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Pacifists
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Quakers
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Radicalism
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United States
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Electronic books
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0812290445 |
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9780812290448 |
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9780812291773 |
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0812291778 |
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